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A tanker carrying liquefied natural gas
Energy
Environment
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

N.J.’s first natural gas terminal for tanker ships may get final vote

The Delaware River project could spur more fracking, according to opponents who also warn of health hazards.

5 years ago

Fairmount Dam Fishway
Environment
Public Safety
Sustainability

‘The river’s gonna seek its own course’: Experts take a new look at easing floods

Traditional systems are designed to manage or redirect water. Natural solutions capture and absorb rains. The issue: predicting the unpredictable.

5 years ago

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A young woman doing work on a computer, sitting next to a robot working on a computer
The Pulse
Biology
Business
Public Health
Technology

The Future of Work

Technology is always changing the way we work, and what kinds of jobs are available. But now these changes are happening at lightning spe ...

Air Date: September 4, 2020

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The pandemic has accelerated a disconcerting trend: Workplace-surveillance software. (Alphavector / Big Stock Photo)
The Pulse
Business
Technology

Is your boss spying on you while you work remotely?

The pandemic has accelerated a disconcerting trend: Workplace-surveillance software.

5 years ago

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Sarah Rose Siskind reads a book to Sophia the Robot, an interviewer, guest speaker and host with over 16,000 YouTube subscribers. (Image courtesy of Nikki Thomas)
The Pulse
Technology

A voice-over artist asks: Will AI take her job? 

If a text-to-speech clone can capture her in a moment, is there a role for her? And how will artificial intelligence affect creativity?

5 years ago

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Mosquito
The Pulse
Biology
Environment
Public Health

Buzz Off, Mosquitoes

Most of us dread mosquito season — but on some level, you’ve got to admire these pesky bloodsuckers. Over the millennia, they’v ...

Air Date: August 28, 2020

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Scientists fishing in the Brandywine Creek, at the site of the former West Street dam in Delaware. (Jim Shanahan/Brandywine Shad 2020)
Delaware
Environment
Infrastructure

When the dam’s away, the fish will play: Demolition on Brandywine Creek is restoring shad

In late July, researchers caught juvenile and adult fish just upstream of where the West Street Dam was removed by the City of Wilmington in 2019.

5 years ago

In this 2018 file photo, Energy Transfer, the parent company of Mariner East 2 pipeline builder, Sunoco, works at Snitz Creek in West Cornwall Township, Lebanon County after a drilling mud spill during the summer. (Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

DEP fines Sunoco again for drilling mud spills, but Mariner East pipeline opponents say penalties aren’t fixing the problem

Fines for 2018-2019 violations come less than two weeks after spill in Chester County.

5 years ago

A forest burns as the CZU August Lightning Complex Fire advances on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, in Bonny Doon, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Environment
National

California fires claim 5 lives, threaten thousands of homes

Three major collections of fires are threatening tens of thousands of homes in the San Francisco Bay Area and central California.

5 years ago

In addition to large plastic trash, researchers estimate that more than 21 million metric tons of tiny plastic debris are floating below the Atlantic Ocean's surface. (Michael O'Neill/Science Source)
NPR
Environment

The Atlantic is awash with far more plastic than previously thought, study finds

A study suggests there is more plastic in the Atlantic Ocean than scientists estimated earlier, especially tiny plastic pieces that can end up inside fish and other animals.

5 years ago

Pseudoboletus parasiticus in Wolf's Hollow near Atglen, Pa. (Courtesy of John Dawson)
Environment
Outdoors

Edible mushrooms start sprouting across Delaware Valley after rainy summer months

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn talks with mushroom expert Linda Brynan Sears about the different mushrooms that have begun sprouting around our area.

5 years ago

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A Cambria County wind farm
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Report: Clean energy jobs among fastest-growing in Pa. from 2017-2019

Coal and natural gas industries saw losses over the past few years.

5 years ago

Caribou from the Porcupine caribou herd are seen migrating onto the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. The Interior Department hopes to conduct a lease sale for oil and gas drilling in the coastal plain by the end of 2020. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/AP)
NPR
Energy
Environment

Trump administration moves closer to allowing oil drilling in Arctic Refuge

The move applies to some 1.57 million acres of the refuge's coastal plain.

5 years ago

A personality test showing options for extrovert and introvert
The Pulse
Biology

The Puzzle of Personality

Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Open to new experiences, or comforted by routine? Shy or the life of the party? Figuring out what m ...

Air Date: August 14, 2020

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Jordan Emerson was a member of the Whiz Kidz race team in Scarborough, Maine.  (Courtesy of Jordan Emerson)
The Pulse
Biology

How a brain injury turned a teenager from shy to sociable 

A race-car accident shook her frontal lobes and cerebellum like a baby rattle, doctors said. Personality change after a trauma like that isn’t uncommon. 

5 years ago

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